NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: 12 great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding - Comic Riffs - The Washington Post: "“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”"
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15 October 2012
28 August 2012
13 October 2011
29 September 2011
John Donne. "Songs and Sonnets."
John Donne. "Songs and Sonnets.":
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
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HOLY SONNETS.
X.
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
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when I get an actual keyboard (this is all being typed with On-screen Keyboard - the horror!) revisit & cf. ALL Donne works esp:
Woman's Constancy - it could absolutely be a late 20th/21st century poem from a woman to a man, even and especially the phrase 'vain lunatic' : )
Farewell To Love - CRAZY! Overtly comparing pussy - and by that I mean Vagina - to love for Christ. (...the desire, the mystery...)Pussy turns out to be the big disappointment. It's great!
&
an early favorite, follow the link or read below
X.
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die.
10 September 2011
Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms
Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms:
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Awesome Blog
Got to it while searching for this Awesome Quote:
"You get a wonderful view from the point of no return." M. von Lipwig
by Terry Pratchett from his DiscWorld series
29 August 2011
SYLLOGISM & EMPIRICISM/EMPRICAL
SYLLOGISM http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/syllogism
Deductive reasoning
Forming a conclusion through discourse, based on knowledge and reason
To reckon (one of my recent favorite words, check the bottom of my entry entitled 'Fais Do-Do' for more on 'to reckon)
Etymology - Check out entry entitled "LOGOS", syllogism from Greek 'syn' (together) plus 'logos' (to reason, to count, and hundreds of other meanings...just check out your previous "LOGOS" entry) : )
EMPIRICAL http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empirical
Inductive reasoning
Forming conclusions based on observation, experience and experiments
Etymology - from Online Etymology Dictionary
Deductive reasoning
Forming a conclusion through discourse, based on knowledge and reason
To reckon (one of my recent favorite words, check the bottom of my entry entitled 'Fais Do-Do' for more on 'to reckon)
Etymology - Check out entry entitled "LOGOS", syllogism from Greek 'syn' (together) plus 'logos' (to reason, to count, and hundreds of other meanings...just check out your previous "LOGOS" entry) : )
EMPIRICAL http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/empirical
Inductive reasoning
Forming conclusions based on observation, experience and experiments
Etymology - from Online Etymology Dictionary
from L. empiricus , from Gk. empeirikos "experienced," from empeiria "experience," from empeiros "skilled," from en- "in" + peira "trial, experiment." Originally a school of ancient physicians who based their practice on experience rather than theory.
23 August 2011
EARTHQUAKE!
!!!EARTHQUAKE!!!
Seriously, there was an Earthquake today! Well, now it actually happened yesterday, therefore on Tuesday, 23 August 2011, at approximately 1400 I experienced my first Earthquake!
It was so fucking weird. I was in bed trying to figure out if I should sleep more or get up. I was in a pickle because supposedly Rafe was coming tomorrow (today) morning with the exterminators so I was trying to get myself up for a cleaning marathon but I was so anxious about it I hadn't actually been able to sleep. So I was cranky, about 1/4 asleep, and then...
I felt like I was swaying...but I was aware it was the bed, the room. It was just for a second, so I thought maybe I had misinterpreted the affects or the vibrations of some type of construction in the neighborhood...and THEN we were OFF!
And I was really swaying back and forth! I was in bed and confused...like "is this really happening?!?!" IT was like swaying back and forth on a giant swing, it actually wasn't unpleasant except that I knew I needed to get much more scared than I was and that I might need to take action...but then, fortunately, it just suddenly stopped. While it was happening, and this is weird but I felt like...I couldn't stop it. Of course I couldn't stop it! But it's that feeling and realization that you have no control. It's funny, but that's exactly what Mom said to me..."You realize how you don't have any control..." And I was like "Yeah Mom, of course, none of us have control over anything...duh!" I am such a snot! : )
It lasted for maybe 10 or fifteen seconds. It originated in Mineral, VA and apparently was a five.9. It went all the way up the East Coast and was felt in Toronto, Ohio...they closed LaGuardia in NY for a little bit and of course evacuated all the office buildings in DC. The news people went crazy and even an hour later were showing "footage" of people in NY and DC standing on the streets...like, they couldn't go back into their buildings and they couldn't go home! Poor assholes.
Mom said it was really scary. Poor Mommy! She was on the sixth floor, and the building was swaying back and forth and stuff was falling off her desk and cabinets and her drawers were opening. I tried to call her immediately afterwards...of course she was my first call...and I kept on calling her, Carly called her...but she didn't get back to use until about 1five00! Interestingly enough, Rafe got in touch with me before Mom did! : ) I guess they had evacuated and had to stand outside their building for over an hour, and of course all the phone lines, cell phones included, were down because everybody freaked out at the same time and tried to call somebody.
I texted and called Carly, but I didn't talk to her until she got home with Bill and Cory at their usual 1440. They were all O.K., and according to Bill and Carly they were in Reston, in the car, and felt nothing!
I went to the pool at 1five30, and after I swam I talked to these 'office' ladies in the pool, some of whom where there because they got to leave work early cuz of the Quake. One lady told me she had been in the pool with some of her friends at the time and that they felt NOTHING. She then told me that a man was swimming laps and he swam up to them and said "Did you feel the earthquake?". The ladies thought he was making a sexual, macho boast about his swimming so they were like "Oh yeah, we feel that earthquake!" and one of them said "We better look out for the Tsunami!". Then, apparently all the neighbors started running out of their houses, freaking out (I was one of these people, but I simply stuck my head out the door to make sure a plane hadn't crashed in the parking lot) going "Did you feel the Earthquake!?!?!" Then the ladies realized that the man was asking them a genuine question, not hitting on them, and apparently they were embarrassed and apologized to him. So funny!
And...I lucked out with Rafe and the Exterminators. Apparently Rafe 'miscommunicated' with them and they're not coming today, and he's decided not to come at all. (Yeah!) We rescheduled for Monday, 29 August 2011 between 1000 and 1200. While it is nice to have more time...I wish the fucking cockroaches had been killed in the Quake!!!
The great QUAKE off 2011!!!!!!
<3ALE<3
Seriously, there was an Earthquake today! Well, now it actually happened yesterday, therefore on Tuesday, 23 August 2011, at approximately 1400 I experienced my first Earthquake!
It was so fucking weird. I was in bed trying to figure out if I should sleep more or get up. I was in a pickle because supposedly Rafe was coming tomorrow (today) morning with the exterminators so I was trying to get myself up for a cleaning marathon but I was so anxious about it I hadn't actually been able to sleep. So I was cranky, about 1/4 asleep, and then...
I felt like I was swaying...but I was aware it was the bed, the room. It was just for a second, so I thought maybe I had misinterpreted the affects or the vibrations of some type of construction in the neighborhood...and THEN we were OFF!
And I was really swaying back and forth! I was in bed and confused...like "is this really happening?!?!" IT was like swaying back and forth on a giant swing, it actually wasn't unpleasant except that I knew I needed to get much more scared than I was and that I might need to take action...but then, fortunately, it just suddenly stopped. While it was happening, and this is weird but I felt like...I couldn't stop it. Of course I couldn't stop it! But it's that feeling and realization that you have no control. It's funny, but that's exactly what Mom said to me..."You realize how you don't have any control..." And I was like "Yeah Mom, of course, none of us have control over anything...duh!" I am such a snot! : )
It lasted for maybe 10 or fifteen seconds. It originated in Mineral, VA and apparently was a five.9. It went all the way up the East Coast and was felt in Toronto, Ohio...they closed LaGuardia in NY for a little bit and of course evacuated all the office buildings in DC. The news people went crazy and even an hour later were showing "footage" of people in NY and DC standing on the streets...like, they couldn't go back into their buildings and they couldn't go home! Poor assholes.
Mom said it was really scary. Poor Mommy! She was on the sixth floor, and the building was swaying back and forth and stuff was falling off her desk and cabinets and her drawers were opening. I tried to call her immediately afterwards...of course she was my first call...and I kept on calling her, Carly called her...but she didn't get back to use until about 1five00! Interestingly enough, Rafe got in touch with me before Mom did! : ) I guess they had evacuated and had to stand outside their building for over an hour, and of course all the phone lines, cell phones included, were down because everybody freaked out at the same time and tried to call somebody.
I texted and called Carly, but I didn't talk to her until she got home with Bill and Cory at their usual 1440. They were all O.K., and according to Bill and Carly they were in Reston, in the car, and felt nothing!
I went to the pool at 1five30, and after I swam I talked to these 'office' ladies in the pool, some of whom where there because they got to leave work early cuz of the Quake. One lady told me she had been in the pool with some of her friends at the time and that they felt NOTHING. She then told me that a man was swimming laps and he swam up to them and said "Did you feel the earthquake?". The ladies thought he was making a sexual, macho boast about his swimming so they were like "Oh yeah, we feel that earthquake!" and one of them said "We better look out for the Tsunami!". Then, apparently all the neighbors started running out of their houses, freaking out (I was one of these people, but I simply stuck my head out the door to make sure a plane hadn't crashed in the parking lot) going "Did you feel the Earthquake!?!?!" Then the ladies realized that the man was asking them a genuine question, not hitting on them, and apparently they were embarrassed and apologized to him. So funny!
And...I lucked out with Rafe and the Exterminators. Apparently Rafe 'miscommunicated' with them and they're not coming today, and he's decided not to come at all. (Yeah!) We rescheduled for Monday, 29 August 2011 between 1000 and 1200. While it is nice to have more time...I wish the fucking cockroaches had been killed in the Quake!!!
The great QUAKE off 2011!!!!!!
<3ALE<3
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